FYI, I changed the behavior of the Harmony remote so that it is only sending the signal once instead of 3 times and that semi-corrected the LIRC issues in the testing repo without breaking them in the standard repo. It is detecting the press and hold much more quickly than the standard repo, but again, I think this is adjustable in the Harmony. I have not dug out the OEM streamzap remote to compare yet.

However, I am having an issue with compiling the Kodi 18 alpha 1 source. It gets to what appears to be the very end, and a very long instruction and spits out a bunch of errors related to /usr/bin/ld.gold. For example:

I "think" that I am still using the same PKGBUILD that I used before and I don't remember this type of error. I gather that ld.gold is part of the binutils package. Do you have any suggestions on correcting this? There are 20 lines like this followed by:

Code:

collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

and then other make error messages.

I realized that fmt is a package I built in order to compile Kodi 18 so this is probably on me. I tried rebuilding with the latest fmt after the testing updates, but still seeing the issue. I will keep at it.

I rebuilt/updated binutils and am pushing it to testing now. Give it a few mins and try building again.

Thanks, but I have tried it with the updated binutils and still get the same error. I presume there is a flag either in the kodi or fmt pkgbuild that would solve this, but I haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet.

I've finally rebuilt kodi 18 alpha 1. I found out that there is an option to configure a built-in fmt library, so I enabled that. Still not sure what was wrong with the way it built earlier. Hopefully I can get back into testing this more this weekend.

Okay, back to the lirc issues. I have the same configuration files for lirc before and after the updates, but for some reason, if I press and hold a button pre-testing, it registers multiple keypresses without a release "_UP". When I do the same with the lirc in testing, it always registers a release "_EVUP" in between signals even though I am holding the button. I can't figure out how to configure this in lirc. Looking at the configuration, repeat is generally either set to 0 or 3. This seems to be designed to determine how to handle the keypresses when a button is pressed and held. However, now that it is considering my press and hold as separate keypresses, the repeat configuration does nothing. Does anybody have suggestions on where to get assistance with lirc?

I've finally dug out the original streamzap remote and found the behavior to be identical to that of the Logitech Harmony. I think that there is an issue with this build of lirc. I've been trying to find out how to set the release timeout and it suggests using lircd-uinput to configure it, but this does not appear to be included. Where could I access the PKGBUILD for the testing LIRC package so that I could play around with it?

I've made a workaround for the moment. I've just rebuilt LIRC 0.9.2 and overwrote 0.10.1 and the remote is working normally now. I was able to build 0.10.1 with lircd-uinput, but I couldn't adjust anything because it complained that there was no /dev/uinput. It seems that some of these changes may have begun around LIRC 0.9.4. As I get time, I may try building several revisions to find out at what point it breaks for me.

edit: I sort of dismissed the suggestion to try a different configuration file since this has been working for so long, but instead of trying to build different versions of lirc, I will circle back to trying 0.10.1 with a different configuration file when I get a chance.

I downgraded to 304 drivers and the problem went away. I then updated the card to a GT 710 and updated drivers to the latest. The problem was back, but rarely. Now that I have updated to the testing repos it is happening frequently. In addition to the info in the other posts, I have looked at the kernel logs and see the following at the time it happens.

I still have not seen the video issue. I have a 210, 220 and a 710 and I run them all on the 340.xxx driver. I still use the 340.xxx drivers on the 710 because of this issue: https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13100

I am not seeing func and version issues here. But in the past I have an it was due to my DNS server not resolving hostnames.

I still have not seen the video issue. I have a 210, 220 and a 710 and I run them all on the 340.xxx driver. I still use the 340.xxx drivers on the 710 because of this issue: https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13100

I am not seeing func and version issues here. But in the past I have an it was due to my DNS server not resolving hostnames.

Thanks for the response. I am definitely planning to try a different LIRC configuration when I get a chance. Regarding the video issue, it is extremely frustrating, but it seems to only impact a small percentage of people. I assume there is a common thread, but I don't know if we will ever find it. I had the issue with the 210 + the 340.xxx driver, but not the 210 + the 304.xxx driver. I will try to downgrade the 710 to the 340.xxx to see if there is an improvement, but based on the 210 with that driver, I am doubtful.

For comparison,My motherboard is Asus M5A78L-M LX3 which has a 760G chipsetCPU is AMD Athlon II X2 Dual-Core Processor 270(3.4 GHz) AM3 running with the schedutil governorI have 8 GB RAM (DDR3, not sure on speed or manufacdturer at the moment)Video: GT 710 1GD3H LPV1Audio and video are both coming out of the video card on an HDMI cable.There's not really much other hardware to speak of. Resolution is 1080p.

Regarding the xymon issues, I am not noticing any other dns related issues. I haven't found the configuration for func and version yet. Is there a guide which may help me track this down?

I was able to carve out some time to test LIRC 0.10.1 again, and it appears to work normally with the newer configuration. I just updated all of the button names to match what they were previously so that I didn't have to reconfigure anything else. After the update and reboot, while I was on the welcome screen, I opened an ssh window and ran irw to confirm everything looked correct. After launching mythfrontend and playing around with the remote a bit more, I closed irw and the receiver continued to light up, but the system became unresponsive to the remote until I rebooted again. Maybe a coincidence, so I will keep 0.10.1 installed for the time being and see if it is stable.

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